In 2010, you`ll see us at the following events and shows...

  • Saturday, Sunday & Monday 1st, 2nd, 3rd May 2010 Merton Vintage Show, Merton Farm, Canterbury, Kent. www.mvwf.co.uk
  • Saturday, Sunday & Monday 29th, 30th & 31st May 2010 NatureFest, Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum, Halland, Lewes, E.Sussex.  www.wildernessgathering.co.uk
  • Saturday & Sunday 26th & 27th June 2010 Preston Steam Rally, Preston, near Canterbury.
  • Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th July 2010  Cherry Festival, Brogdale Farm, Faversham, Kent   www.brogdalecollections.co.uk
  • Friday, Saturday and Sunday 16th, 17th & 18th July 2010 Kent County Show, Detling - you`ll find us in the woodland.
  • Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th July 2010 Chilli Farm Country Fayre, Coldred, Near Dover.
  • Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th August 2010 Step Back in Time, Hastings
  • Friday 20st - Sunday 22nd August.  Wilderness Gathering - The Original Bushcraft Show, West Knoyle, Wiltshire.   www.wildernessgathering.co.uk
  • Saturday, Sunday & Monday 28th, 29th & 30th August 2010 East Kent County Show, Folkestone Race Course
  • Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th September.  Cider Festival.  Brogdale Farm, Faversham, Kent   www.brogdalecollections.co.uk
  • Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th October.  Apple Festival.  Brogdale Farm, Faversham, Kent   www.brogdalecollections.co.uk

Forgotten Crafts FestivalSunday 3rd October 2010
We are planning a "Forgotten Crafts Festival" Sunday 3rd October 2010. at Mount Ephraim Gardens, Hernhill, near Canterbury.  This will be an amazing event to ensure our British traditional crafts are passed on and not forgotten!

If you are a crafts person, and interested in attending the event to demonstrate your traditional skill, please do get in touch with us at EarthCraftuk and help us make this a very special and memorable event. We are looking for people who naturally have an affinity of what we are trying to do and want to pass on their knowledge and sell their traditional hand crafted wares.  We cannot pay for guest demonstrators, however, you are welcome to have a free stall to sell your hand crafted items.

We are in the planning stages at the moment however, to generate interest, would be delighted to hear from anyone involved in any of the following areas:

Spinning • Weaving • Dry-stone Walling • Stone Fencing • Making Wattle Hurdles • Coppicing • Hedge Laying • Tree Felling • Milking a Cow • Shearing a Sheep • Using Herbal Remedies •Beekeeping • Harvesting • Haymaking • Milling • Tracking Animals • Making Bows and Arrows • Making Fishing Nets • Making Fishing Rods • Making Coracles • Game Preparation • Foraging for Wild Food • Brewing Beer • Making Cider • Making Butter • Making Cheese • Making Traditional Sweets • Making Jam & Marmalade • Pickling • Smoking • Making Soap • Making Candles • Making Oil Lamps • Making Besom Brooms • Trug Making • Handmade Paper • Making Corn Dollies • Coopering • Wheelwrighting • Basket Making • Bone, Antler & Horn Working • Whittling • Charcoal Burning • Bee Keeping • Making Walking Sticks and Shepherds Crooks • Quilting •Tanning & Working with Leather • Green Woodworking & Pole Lathe Turning • Building with Wattle & Daub • Thatching • Kitchen Gardening • Saddlery • Blacksmithing & Farriery • Making Weather Vanes & Weathercocks • Making Rope • Making Rabbit Nets • Making Rag Rugs •Making Clay Pipes • Pargetting • Making Whistles & Flutes • Stonemasonry • Making Bobbin Lace • Tatting & Smocking • Chair Making • Hedge Laying • Rustic Green Wood Furniture • Spoon Carving • Canal Boat Painting • Making Stained Glass • Glass Blowing • Natural Dyeing • Bookbinding • Shetland Knitting • Coppice Crafts • Rushwork • Clock Making • Traditional Toy Making • Scrimshaw Work • Wood Carving • Story Telling • Traditional Beading • Calligraphy • Hand Block Printing • Gilding • Kitchen Crafts • and there may be a few more!!!!!

If you are a crafts person with any of these wonderful skills and wish to take part - at the moment, we are gathering details of interested people and we would love to hear from you - please drop us an email at info@earthcraftuk.com


 

 

in Kent, The Garden of England